THE COMPANY

Our client is a professional Food organization, based in Belgium.

The company is one of the largest players within the Food Ingredients with multiple plants world-wide. The company has been growing fast over the last years and is currently looking for an highly experienced Manager Continuous Improvement who can support the plants in Europe in growing and development and improving (production) processes.

ROLE DESCRIPTION

As Manager CI you are responsible for the implementation of CI/Lean at 10 sites in Europe with +/-900FTE and will be working closely together with the Site managers and the Operations Director. The local Managers Continuous Improvement will directly report to the manager Manager CI EU and will form a Project Team to make sure the projects at the sites run smoothly. The Manager CI is directly in charge of leading the projects which are set by the Operations Director and will be a sparrings partner for the Plant Manager when it comes to improving/lean. Together with the CI-team the Manager CI EU will be giving trainings on the sites about CI-methodology and the use of tools (Lean).

The Manager CI EU is highly experienced with Continuous Improvement/Lean and has proven track record when is comes to Change/Project Management. Experience in the Food Industry is strongly preferred (in the life sciences is required).

RESPONSIBILITIES

-Implementation of Continuous Improvement-Leading 15 sites in Lean-Manage Project team-Sparrings partner Plant Managers-Directly reporting to the Operations Director-Train team in CI-methodology and use of tools (Lean)

REQUIREMENTS

-MSc Engineering-MBA is highly preferred-Proven record of +8 years in Continuous Improvement/TPM/Lean-Strong communication skills, people manager, coaching-10-15 years of experience in production environment in the Life Sciences (Food strongly preferred)-Proven record of change management-Travel 50-60% of the time

Are you interested and do want to apply for this role, please fill out your application via the apply button below and contact Kimberly de Jager.